These two factors describe the climate of an area.
What are temperature and precipitation?
100
These climate zones are associated with high temperatures and are located in equatorial regions.
What is tropical climates?
100
The movement of continents over millions of years has possibly caused climate change since continents are now in different latitudes and receiving different wind flows and ocean currents. This movement is called...
What is plate tectonics?
100
A gradual increase in average global temperatures.
What is global warming?
100
This is the amount of energy needed to change the temperature of 1 g of a substance by 1 degree Celsius.
What is specific heat?
200
This affects how much solar energy an area receives due to the angle the sun strikes the Earth at.
What is latitude?
200
These are the 3 climate zones.
What are: tropical, middle latitude, and polar climate zones?
200
This theory states that there has been a period change in the shape of Earth's orbit and a wobble of Earth on its axis which can lead to climate change.
What is the Milankovitch Theory?
200
If polar ice caps melt, this will result.
What is sea-levels will rise?
200
This is the warm water phase of ENSO that causes surface water temperatures along the west coast of South America to rise.
What is El Nino?
300
This type of substance absorbs and releases heat faster because it is opaque and unmoving.
What is land/sand?
300
Deforestation has lead to increasing CO2 levels because of this...
What is there are less trees to take in CO2 and use it?
300
An increase in global temperature can lead to an increase in evaporation causing this to happen in some areas.
What is drought?
300
These are winds that are seasonal and bring heavy rains in the summer months in Southern Asia.
What are monsoons?
400
Because of different amounts of solar energy at different latitudes, these belts form around the globe creating cool, dense air that sinks and warm, less dense air that rises.
What are global wind patterns?
400
This type of middle latitude climate is dry and receives less than 40 cm of precipitation per year. Summers average 23 degrees Celsius and winters are around -1 degree Celsius.
What is Steppe climates?
400
Sulfur and ash from volcanic eruptions can decrease the Earth's temperatures by doing this.
What is reflecting sunlight back into space?
400
Increased temperatures could be a positive impact in some places allowing this.
What is crops to grow where they couldn't before?
400
With elevation, the temperature ____________ as altitude _____________.
What is decreases; increases?
500
The amount of precipitation generally ____________ as latitude increases.
What is decreases?
500
This polar climate has the largest annual temperature range of all climates, with the difference between summer and winter being 63 degrees Celsius.
What is the subarctic climate?
500
Eccentricity causes this to happen.
What is change Earth's orbit making it more circular and less elliptical?
500
Scientists believe the Earth could increase by _____ to ______ degrees Celsius in this century.
What is 2 to 4?
500
These are a dry wind that flows down slope of the Alps.